Prime Minister Trudeau wants the Vatican to address the legacy of Catholic-run residential schools where indigenous children suffered abuse.
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Pope Francis to missionaries: Dialogue with Muslims and defend human dignity
Missionaries are entrusted with bringing hope to poor Christian communities while building bridges with Muslims and protecting human rights, Pope Francis told a group of men and women missionaries.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Avoid becoming Christians of “the right or the left” urges Pope Francis during Pentecost Homily
Pope Francis celebrated Pentecost Mass, urging Christians to avoid “diversity without unity” and “unity without diversity.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Vatican official: President Trump’s decision to withdraw from Paris climate change accord a ‘disaster’
Vatican officials slammed it as “a disaster for the whole world because the United States has such importance today and is a country that many follow.”
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Wim Wenders, director of Pope Francis doc, on making movies that matter
Francis recently granted a series of film interviews with legendary German director Wim Wenders that form the basis of “Pope Francis–A Man of His Word.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis is the most-followed world leader on Twitter—but Trump is closing in.
Watch out Pope Francis, President Trump is coming for you—at least in terms of popularity on Twitter.
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What Pope Francis learned from St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
An excerpt from Jesuit Sean Salai’s new book “All the Pope’s Saints: The Jesuits Who Shaped Pope Francis”
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Pope Francis will not visit South Sudan in 2017
With the civil war worsening and famine spreading, Pope Francis already in March had expressed doubts about the possibility of making the trip.
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‘Capitalism gives a moral cloak to inequality,’ Pope Francis says at Italian steel plant
Condemning an economy that encourages speculation more than entrepreneurship, warning priests and religious that they share responsibility for the vocations crisis and telling young people they are right to be puzzled by nations that close their doors to people fleeing persecution, Pope Francis spent a busy day in Genoa. Besides being packed with pastoral appointments, […]
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Trudeau asks Pope Francis to apologize for church’s harm of Canada’s indigenous people
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he asked Pope Francis to help Canadians “move forward on a real reconciliation” with the country’s indigenous people.